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Hamish Macbeth · Book 23

Death of a Gentle Lady

by M. C. Beaton

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
129
ISBN-13
9780446582605
Type
novel

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About this book

M. C. Beaton's Death of a Gentle Lady (2008) is the twenty-third book, a comparatively slim 129 pages, sending Hamish after a case rooted in the kind of old village secret the series specializes in.

Its place in Hamish Macbeth

Death of a Gentle Lady is book 23 in the Hamish Macbeth series. It follows Death of a Maid. It is followed by Death of a Witch. See the full Hamish Macbeth reading order.

Constable Hamish Macbeth is the laziest ambitious man in the Scottish Highlands: a lanky, red-headed village policeman in the fictional coastal town of Lochdubh who works hard at exactly one thing, staying a lowly constable, because promotion would mean a desk in Strathbane and losing the poaching, fishing and gossiping that make his unhurried life worth living. M. C. Beaton (the pen name of Marion Chesney) built the series as the gentler, more whimsical sibling to her later Agatha Raisin books: the crimes are…

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